this dude is a blooming idiot. Just saw his new show, the one where he removed yet another honeybee colony. i understand some hive have to be killed my problem is his complete ignorance to the lifestyle of the honeybee. He claimed he needed to save the colony so he ripped it out threw it on a sheet of tin and drug it into the woods. Colony saved. Not sorry you sir are an idiot. I now understand why you were arrested for selling drugs

I got myself permanently banned from his fanboy site. The year before last NWCOA (National Wildlife Control Operators Association) held it's annual convention in New Orleans. I registered on his site just so I could extend to him a very cordial invitation to attend and even offered to pay his way. My offer was not received very well and before the thread got deleted and I got banned I was called some things my mama wouldn't like.

This is not new. We older types all watched Marlin Perkins murdering animals under the same premise on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Then Lorne Greene introduced us to every predator on earth savagely murdering Bambi's of every herbivore lineage. Speaking of Turtleboy, are you referring to the latest TV hero for crawling around with Galapagos land turtles so he wouldn't disturb creatures with slightly less brain power than a slug. The concrete people (those never off it!) need some nature in small pre chewed bites. Those shows are where they get it.

Vance , Have you ever seen a snapping turtle? If you come to NC I will introduce you to one that lives in the creek behind my house and watch you pull him/her up out of the water. Being fromMontana I presume you have never seen one. I don't like those shows ,but have respect for a guy that goes in the pond after one of those prehistoric things that have the bite of an alligator...They can stretch their neck over 2/3 the length of their body. I don't mess with them... JPP

I so do love them alligator snapping turtles. Yum yum, besides my birthday is next week. You keep yo eye on him now and don't you 'a-louw' him to get away whilst' I get my skillet all greased up, you hear? :angel: :roll: ;)

It’s a real shame they can’t make a reality series with knowledgeable people like JP (and crew) or David. It speaks volumes when he bans real animal control professionals from his website. I don’t go out of my way to watch this waste of airspace, but if I’m exhausted and winding down for the night, I have seen a few episodes. I figure the show is really written for Super Dave Osborne type of humor as opposed to providing any useful information.

.....The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful stranger called the government. They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved.....

It’s a real shame they can’t make a reality series with knowledgeable people like JP (and crew) or David. It speaks volumes when he bans real animal control professionals from his website. I don’t go out of my way to watch this waste of airspace, but if I’m exhausted and winding down for the night, I have seen a few episodes. I figure the show is really written for Super Dave Osborne type of humor as opposed to providing any useful information.

Believe me I get the calls. I've had calls from at least half a dozen production companies. They don't stay on my phone when they start asking do you deal with bears or alligators and never get past the point where I say that I will retain all editorial control. It's all sensationalized for TV and the real professionals or more correctly businessmen and women want no part of it. We have another one out in Tulsa that calls himself a "whisperer" and is known to badmouth everyone else in the industry and makes claims of his own tree hugging superiority. To say that he is universally despised should go without saying.

... I've had calls from at least half a dozen production companies. They don't stay on my phone when they start asking do you deal with bears or alligators...

My Wife's brother-in-law has a commercial gator fishing license from the Great State of Louisanna. He figures that is how they got his name. A Holly Weird production company called about two years ago and asked him about appearing on "Swamp People" but they didn't stay on the phone long after he answered "Yes," to the question, "Do you still have all your teeth?"

So if you beeks want your 15 minutes of fame, say NO if 'William' the Varmint Concorer asks you the same question.

BlueBee, the best way to catch a pickup bed of soup turtles is to fashion you some topless wire baskets out of welded wire, using "J" hooks or hog ringers to hold the parts together. Then nail these wire baskets onto the sides of partally submerged logs or stumps. Snapper turtles haul out of the water onto the dry portion of the log to sun. When you come running up in your outboard boat it startles them and they bail out on both sides of the log and right into the wire baskets where they can be scooped up with a dip net like shooting fish in a barrel.

David, I had his mom just about cuss me out via e-mail a few yrs ago when I suggested they hire a bee keeper to teach them about live removal. She was very defensive & told me they knew how to remove them live. The nerve of me to step on their toes. :shock:

BTW folks, soft shell turtles make killer turtle soup & there's a whole lot more of them in my neck of the woods than the alligator snappers that take a long, long time to grow to large size.

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"